Motivational Quotes

Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Time

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.